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It’s Juli here with a fun Halloween (or really any holiday/season) gift idea…hybrid decorated mini hand sanitizers.  By day I work full time at an insurance company.  The department I work in goes out and meets with doctors a lot!  So, I when thinking of something fun to give my co-workers as a Halloween giftie the 1 oz hand sanitizers from Bath & Body Works were a no brainer.

Supplies:
Your favorite Sweet Shoppe Halloween Kit (you’ll see that I’ve used many!)
Colored Card stock
Score Board and Bone folder (or a ruler and bone folder)
White printer/presentation paper
Color Printer
Tape Runner/double stick tape
Ribbon
Craft Knife
Scissors and/or Paper Trimmer
Foam Dots

Let’s get started!
1.  Lay your 8.5″ x 11″ card stock  on your Score Board with the 11″ side up against the top where the measurements are shown.

2.  Score your 8/5″ x 11″ card stock at 3/4″, 1 3/4″, 3″, 4″, 7 1/4″ and 8 1/4″.  Go back to 5″ and do a light score as a guideline versus a score line.

3.  Place the scored card stock in your paper trimmer so that the 8.5″ side is against the ruler and you are cutting perpendicular to the score lines you created in steps 1 and 2.

4.  Cut the scored card stock every 2 1/2″, which will create 3 hand sanitizer wraps per piece of card stock.

5.  Lay your cut and scored card stock flat on your work surface so that the 3/4″ is facing towards you and the last section of paper you scored is facing away from you.

6.  Locate the section just above the 3/4″.

7.  Place the bottom of your hand sanitizer bottle in the middle of this second section.

8.  Trace around the bottom of the bottle lightly with a pencil.

9.  Use a craft knife to cut out the hole where your hand sanitizer bottle will come through using the lines you created in Step 8 above as your guide.  Please make sure you protect your work surface!!!

10.  Assemble the box by folding on the following lines: 3/4″, 1 3/4″, 3″ and 4″.

11.  Place a strip of taper runner or double stick tape on the 3/4″ panel.

12.  Adhere the 3/4″ panel to the back of the box by lining up the top fold at the 5″ guide line you created in step 2.

13.  Continue folding the score lines to create your box.  Place hand sanitizer inside the box.

14.  Open Photoshop Elements 7.

15.  Select File, New, US Paper, Preset: US Paper, Size: Letter, Width: 8.5 inches, Height: 11 inches, Resolution: 300 pixels/inch. This is your Print Sheet.

16.  Using the rectangle tool, create the decorations for the front flap of your hand sanitizer box to fit the 2.5″ wide and 2.75″ tall front.  I made my outside rectangle 2.25″ x 2.5″.  The layered inside rectangles I created are 2″ x 2.25″. I made sure to add a drop shadow to the top layer so that it looks like these papers are layered in real life.

17.  Create a rectangle front for each hand sanitizer wrap and then place any 3-D items separately on the print sheet. Here is what my final print sheet looked like:

18.  Print out your print sheet using a color printer and your favorite kind of printer paper.

19.  Using your paper trimmer cut out the rectangles and adhere to the front flap of the hand sanitizer wrap.  Cut out the 3-D items using a sharp pair of scissors.

20.  Place the 3-D items on to the wrap front using foam dots to raise the element.

Here are all the different versions I created using a variety of Sweet Shoppe kits.

A Little Bit Corny – That Old Black Magic by Dani Mogstad, paper – Frankenmonster’s Halloween Party by Shawna Clingerman

Turquoise Bat – Paper –All Treats No Tricks by Cindy Schneider and Megan Mullens, Bat – Bippity Boppity by Libby Pritchet

Trick or Treat – That Old Black Magic by Dani Mogstad

Happy Halloween Frankenstein – Frankenmonster’s Halloween Party by Shawna Clingerman,Font – I Love Me Some Laura by Darcy Baldwin

Germs Are Scary – Bippity Boppity by Libby Pritchet
Ghost in the Window – Frankenmonster’s Halloween Party by Shawna Clingerman

Chevron Cat- That Old Black Magic by Dani Mogstad
Vintage Bat –  Fright Night by Susan Bartolini and Melissa Bennett

Vampire – Paper – That Old Black Magic by Dani Mogstad, Vampire, Journal Spot – All Treats No Tricks by Cindy Schneider and Megan Mullens

You could totally sparkle these up with some glitter, add a ribbon handle or add some border punches to liven these up.  I hope you’ll give this project a try…please link me up if you do.